By David Glance, University of Western Australia

The long tail of academic publishing David Glance

In 2004, Wired Editor Chris Anderson wrote an article and later a book about how online businesses were taking advantage of the economic principles of something called the long tail.

A long [...]

By David Glance, University of Western Australia

Owni, Wikileaks and others’ site on surveillance software http://spyfiles.org

Iran it seems has been the target of another novel form of malware christened “Flame”. Much has been made of this new threat because of novel characteristics that set it apart from traditional malware. [...]

Associate Professor David Glance

There have been enough social media disasters of late to make one thing clear: manipulating sentiment through social networks is next to impossible.

The McDonald’s #McDStories campaign in January was supposed to allow the public to share fond memories of eating at McDonald’s. Instead, responses quickly became abusive and negative.

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Assoc Professor David Glance

Whenever the press covers a story about hackers, a great deal of the discussion concerns the nature of online identity, the cohesiveness of hacking groups, and the individuals that identify with these groups. This is particularly the case with discussion of hackers that consider themselves part of the hacktivist group [...]

Associate Professor David Glance

From July 1 2012, Australians will be able to register for their own Personally Controlled Electronic Health Record (PCEHR). At least this was what Rosemary Huxtable, deputy secretary of the department of health and ageing has reaffirmed to a parliamentary senate committee. At that point, $467m will have been [...]

Research Assistant Professor Kristyn Bates

Genetic mutations are the cause of many incurable diseases and we now have tests to predict the likelihood of people developing inherited diseases. But predictive genetic tests for neurodegenerative diseases have many implications and, for some, such tests are like opening Pandora’s box.

A positive result from predictive genetic testing [...]

Professor David Blair

Prof Gordon Royle

Last month, a team led by Gary McGuire from University College Dublin in Ireland made an announcement: they had proven you can’t have a solvable Sudoku puzzle with less than 17 numbers already filled in.

Unlike most mathematical announcements, this was quickly picked up by the popular scientific media. Within a [...]

Assoc Prof David Hodgkinson

Aviation is a growing source of emissions. Emissions from aviation are increasing against a background of decreasing emissions from many other industry sectors. Airlines – with their international reach – are facing a confusing welter of regulation that makes emissions reduction difficult.

Some jurisdictions are pushing for aviation emissions [...]

Assoc Prof Andrew Whitehouse

The DSM giveth, and the DSM taketh away – this is the less-than-complimentary sentiment of many people within the autism community as the clock ticks down to the publication of the most eagerly-anticipated book of 2013.

DSM, of course, is an abbreviation for the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders. [...]